The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsBzzzz... Hick, Bzzzz... Hick
(I just love the title of this one and had to revive it)
Scientists are using their genius to solve some of the greatest mysteries in life... such as how to link genes to hangovers.
US and German scientists are intoxicating fruit flies to discover the relation between genes and alcohol tolerance. They are calling this gene, hangover, and they manipulate the gene in flies to see how the insects "deal with increasing amounts of alcohol. I, personally, can't wait to see how the PETA people freak out over this one. Oh no, not the poor defenseless fruit flies. Little do they know that the fruit flies are probably having the time of their lives getting loaded off the hooch.
The scientists hope that their research will shed some light on alcohol dependency and addiction; however, they believe that human alcohol tolerance is more complicated than being linked to only one gene. They feel that their research findings could be a step closer to understanding human alcohol related issues.
Now all we need is someone to find us a definite cure for hangovers.
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Why can't they test this on humans? I'm sure there would be plenty of willing subjects.
Posted by: von | December 29, 2005 10:12 AM
"they believe that human alcohol tolerance is more complicated than being linked to only one gene"
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. My alcohol tolerance has always been responsible for UNlinking me from my genes.
Posted by: Diane | December 29, 2005 03:02 PM